China's cloud computing research and development capabilities have become obstacles to development

On the surface has been exceptionally "cloud computing", in fact, not so good-looking inside. According to the recently released research report on China's cloud computing from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the public cloud service market in China only accounts for 1/30 of the United States, and there is not yet one-third of the cloud computing revenue of an Amazon enterprise. Nowadays, as the Microsoft Azure cloud platform enters the market of China to stir up, whether it is the already laid-out Internet giants such as Ali, Shanda, Tencent, Sina, or the operators that take advantage of the network strength to enter the cloud market to break the "public cloud insecurity, private cloud Too expensive "industry status quo, imminent.

Customize a "cloud" segment a market

The question about public cloud security has never stopped. For businesses, the network, security, services, and applications that were originally put in their own computer room are all designed according to the needs of the enterprise's own production. Now, packaging the entire service into the cloud means that many things can not be controlled by itself.

Earlier "IT Times" has also reported that the CEO of game companies collective complaints Aliyun provide services continue to appear downtime, power outages and other failures, so that cloud services exist security and instability once again surfaced. Analysis of a game industry: the game industry needs complex, itself not suitable for public cloud, "Some game companies have the stability of the cloud requirements, while some of the data throughput requirements, while others are on the server Very harsh ... ... "As many cloud service providers in the provision of similar public services do not segment the field, therefore, the game industry is still in the cloud of" luck "stage.

Some financial industry practices may be a new direction. According to "IT Times" reporter understands, many small and medium banks or securities companies chose the cloud outsourcing services. A technician from a Taiwan-funded bank disclosed that at present their entire system is on a "customized cloud" of Shanghai Telecom. "This customized cloud is a cloud service higher than the public cloud. Before the move, the CBRC The financial industry standards for technical access to the telecommunications cloud environment audit framework, so, we are more assured. "

It is understood that the customized cloud is a customized cloud service launched by Telecom for "private rooms" for users in different industries. "It is more like an IDC private room, specifically for a certain industry users, or some common areas of service users open up, which is higher than the traditional public cloud level." Shanghai Telecom cloud product development center explained He said that the trend of public cloud services in the future is to establish a cloud service standard that meets the requirements of different industries. "We are also constantly trying and exploring ways to cooperate with different industries."

Public cloud privatization costs straight down by a quarter

The head of a small Internet company told IT Times reporters that the public cloud services they had previously purchased cost more than 100,000 yuan a year, although it seems cheap, but the annual loss due to various failures of public cloud services To more than 10 million. Although this account is not worthwhile, he admits, "Even so, it is still cheaper than building a self-built machine room." The public cloud is not up to standard and the private cloud is too expensive. This is a dilemma facing most enterprises in China.

Many cloud service companies are trying to change this situation, for example, Shanghai Telecom launched last year's "public cloud virtualization service."

"Simply put, it is through the physical partition to establish a virtualized 'private' zone in the public cloud of telecom." The Shanghai Telecom explained above, "It is like opening up a different single room in a large square or a place, However, the region has a clear ownership, the user's autonomy will be stronger and more secure. "According to its disclosure, then, Shanghai Telecom will also be in the virtualization area to open more permissions to users, users can virtualization Cloud control of security, networking, services, applications, to achieve "in their own room experience."

From a cost perspective, the cost of purchasing a similar public cloud service is 25% lower than the cost of developing a private cloud. Therefore, whether in terms of security or cost, this mode solves the shortcomings of the public cloud that is not secure and the private cloud is too expensive from different angles.

According to statistics, in 2012 Shanghai Telecom subscribers 2/3 of the users purchased this new project. However, despite being favored by the financial, manufacturing and government industries, Shanghai Telecom officials admit that cloud services provided by operators are not at an absolute cost advantage. "From hardware to virtualization, we are all using Commercial software, the cost is relatively high, but the structure will be more stable in the event of user problems, the solution is very fast, the quality will be higher.

Ecosystem through the application platform

"At present, operators are more focused on providing cloud resources instead of packaged applications for sale, but in the future do not rule out doing cloud service application platform." One industry insider said that in the future, building a cloud service application platform must be a development trend, which is currently The rapid development of cloud services to build operators will be a major challenge.

The so-called cloud service application platform, refers to the user access will not be a virtual machine but operational tool permissions, he does not have to care about their own tools on which virtual machine, do not have to build the database, the user directly through the database password Into the platform to complete the development, the emphasis is on platform technology services.

Although Sina and Tencent, which are currently trying out the cloud service platform, have no profit model yet, the agglomeration effect thus formed will help boost their development in the cloud. "The ecosystem is very important and the shortest The more users use it in time, the more vitality it has. "According to this person, Weibo and WeChat are building this ecosystem.

For operators, the biggest challenge lies in R & D capability. Unlike the self-built platforms such as Alibaba Cloud and Shanda Cloud, the cloud service applications currently provided by operators are still in the process of purchasing software. The outstanding issue is that the developer cloud application technology development R & D team is not enough.